This was one of the oddest, most random books I've read. It is a collection of stories written by B.J. Novak, with also some stories that seem to come from newspapers or magazines, or something else that I didn't understand. Or maybe he wrote everything and confusing his readers was the point. Some stories are long,... Lire la Suite →

Richard Powers' book Playground was quite long and very complex, and it addressed many, many different themes. The main theme, although you don't realize that until the end of the book, is artificial intelligence, and then you have friendship, racism, family, money, ecology, feminism, dementia, economic development... There were parts that I absolutely loved, there were... Lire la Suite →

This was one of the most shocking books I've read in a long time! Sarah Wynn-Williams worked at Facebook for five years before she was fired, and she tells the story of Facebook's development not only as a social media platform but also as an international tool of information control and citizen surveillance. I can imagine... Lire la Suite →

This book, by Scott Galloway, was ok. It was short and had a few good pieces of information, but overall it was quite repetitive and family focused. Basically, if you're not married and if you don't have children, you're never going to be truly happy. So... The writer is rich, white, healthy, smart, and very... Lire la Suite →

This tiny book by Stewart "Brittlestar" Reynolds is very cute and quite funny. Nothing super intellectual or deep or earth-shattering, but I really enjoyed the jabs the author takes at a certain orangeness and the digs he makes at a certain right-leaning party. And of course, I loved the very accurate descriptions of cats and... Lire la Suite →

Real Estate, by Deborah Levy, is the last book in her trilogy (the first one was Things I Don't Want to Know, and the second one was The Cost of Living). This was not my favourite of the three, but it was still interesting and enjoyable and sometimes funny. In this book, Deborah talks about... Lire la Suite →

When you think about deadly diseases, you usually don't think you'll want to read a whole book about it and laugh and cry and be angry together with the author and learn a few things along the way and truly enjoy it, but that's exactly what John Green has done, something pretty incredible and fascinating... Lire la Suite →

This book, written by Dave Eggers, tells the true story of a young Sudanese boy, Achak Deng, who has to flee his village because of the civil war between northern and southern Sudan. Achak was one of the thousands of "Lost Boys" who became refugees first in Ethiopia and then in Kenya. This is a... Lire la Suite →

I found this book, by Virginia Evans, while looking for something else, and I thought it looked interesting. I am so glad I got it! It was a very funny and sad and beautiful book, and I really loved it! It tells the story, through letters, of an old woman who used to be a... Lire la Suite →

This book, by Walter Isaacson, was very long to listen to (16 hours) but totally worth it. Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize for the discovery, in 2020, with her collaborator, Emmanuelle Charpentier, for discovering the gene-editing process called CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) and Isaacson tells that story. The book talks about... Lire la Suite →

This was an interesting book to listen to. Michael Slepian talks about several studies done on the psychology of secrets, why we keep secrets, when, how, the effects on our mental and physical health, and the fact that we all keep secrets, sometimes small ones, but we all do! He also talks about children and... Lire la Suite →

Across the Universe--The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle, by Natan Last, was one tough book to read! It felt like I was reading a dictionary sometimes! It was dense, the language was highly sophisticated, and the information was packed tightly! But it was also extremely interesting and sometimes even funny 🙂 I... Lire la Suite →

The perks of being a wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky, is one of those commonly banned books (a list of some of which I posted there) and was published in 1999, so it's definitely a "classic." It's often labeled as "young adult literature" because the narrator is young and in high school, but I mostly enjoyed... Lire la Suite →

Less, by Andrew Sean Greer, was a weird book, and I still don’t know whether I liked it or not. It tells the story of Arthur Less, a homosexual man and semi-successful writer who is about to turn 50 and is panicking about it because it feels terribly old. On top of that, his boyfriend... Lire la Suite →

I got this nice small book by Hwang Bo-reum on December 25, and I read it all in one day. It was an easy book to read, and very enjoyable. The only small problem is that it took me longer than expected to read it because the author cites hundreds of books and I had... Lire la Suite →